My friends, you bow to no one.
At this moment, Return of the King is my life.
A bunch of bad crap has been happening lately, not to me, but to the people I care about. It's been getting to me a lot. My uncle being in the hospital for Christmas... his dog dying... my parents increased fighting, and now, my cousin's diagnosis with MS...
But for 3.5 hours, it all goes away.
I've never really been the type to emphasize the value of escapist fiction, but I'm really beginning to see the pros of such media.
ROTK is the single greatest motion picture I have ever seen. It is the culmination of about 7 years worth of devoted fandom. It couldn't have come at a better time.
I'm reminded of the quote from Almost Famous, about how whenever you're feeling lonely, all you have to do is go to the record store and visit your friends.
For me, it's the movie theater, where I visit the friends who I used to drop in on so often back in 6th grade. It's like our relationship became estranged, and only now are we beginning to remember what it was that brought us together in the first place.
<3's to Peter Jackson for being brilliant.
<3's to all the actors and actresses, especially Sir Ian and Viggo.
<3's most of all to J.R.R. Tolkien.
This is from the into to my copy of The Hobbit, copywright 1970-something, and I've never seen a better tribute to Tolkien's creation:
I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fantasies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
ROTK > everything else I know of.
Viewing count up to 3, soon to be 4.
Peace and good karma.
A bunch of bad crap has been happening lately, not to me, but to the people I care about. It's been getting to me a lot. My uncle being in the hospital for Christmas... his dog dying... my parents increased fighting, and now, my cousin's diagnosis with MS...
But for 3.5 hours, it all goes away.
I've never really been the type to emphasize the value of escapist fiction, but I'm really beginning to see the pros of such media.
ROTK is the single greatest motion picture I have ever seen. It is the culmination of about 7 years worth of devoted fandom. It couldn't have come at a better time.
I'm reminded of the quote from Almost Famous, about how whenever you're feeling lonely, all you have to do is go to the record store and visit your friends.
For me, it's the movie theater, where I visit the friends who I used to drop in on so often back in 6th grade. It's like our relationship became estranged, and only now are we beginning to remember what it was that brought us together in the first place.
<3's to Peter Jackson for being brilliant.
<3's to all the actors and actresses, especially Sir Ian and Viggo.
<3's most of all to J.R.R. Tolkien.
This is from the into to my copy of The Hobbit, copywright 1970-something, and I've never seen a better tribute to Tolkien's creation:
I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fantasies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
ROTK > everything else I know of.
Viewing count up to 3, soon to be 4.
Peace and good karma.